Dell Chooses Joyent Software to Power Cloud Computing
San Francisco, CA (March 24, 2010) — Joyent, a pioneer in cloud computing technology, announced today that Dell has selected Joyent’s software to power on-premise cloud computing deployment for the company’s new Dell Cloud Computing Solution for Web Applications.
The arrangement marks the first instance of Joyent software being integrated within a third-party solution and represents a critical turning point in the industry with a single software platform enabling public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions. The new solution will allow organizations to deploy a private cloud on-premise within their organization using Joyent software.
This solution complements existing public clouds built on Joyent software that host thousands of popular websites, delivering billions of page views to millions of active users every month. The new Dell private cloud solution will provide customers with greater flexibility in their deployment options while still delivering the cost effectiveness and performance that have been established on the Joyent public cloud.
“Joyent is excited to be working with Dell to deliver the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications,” said David Young, CEO of Joyent. “Joyent’s expertise in scalable software architectures combined with Dell’s hardware and services are allowing for unmatched flexibility in deployment options to meet the security, control and integration requirements of leading enterprises.”
Applications running on Joyent software automatically use CPU bursting to enable seamless vertical scale for applications and deliver unprecedented hardware utilization. Network operators use simple GUI tools to create and manage complex virtual architectures within the Joyent’s software, allowing for rapid horizontal scaling to mach the needs of dynamic business requirements.
“Along with Dell DCS services and hardware, we chose to incorporate Joyent software because it provides a proven architecture for scaling Web applications,” said Forrest Norrod, General Manager for Server Platforms at Dell. “The Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications allows Web applications to take advantage of the full power of the new Dell PowerEdge C servers to maximize efficiency and return on investment.”
For more information about Joyent software, visit www.joyent.com.
About Joyent
Joyent has been building the software to deliver Infrastructure as a Service since 2004, long before it was ever called Cloud Computing. With thousands of customers world-wide from rapidly growing startups to Fortune 500 companies, Joyent’s high-performance software has been proven to be extremely stable, flexible and secure. Today, Joyent is the only true on-demand Cloud Computing solution providing enterprise customers the convenience, efficiency and scalability of cloud computing with the reliability, security and performance of fully managed, dedicated data centers. Our virtual data center solutions enable customers to deploy and scale computing resources in minutes with a pay-per-use model buying only the necessary capacity desired. Joyent is a leading infrastructure provider for some of the fastest growing businesses on the Web, including:
Watercooler supports millions of users every day on Joyent architecture
LinkedIn delivers billions of pages each month using Joyent infrastructure services.
Country Life has used Joyent’s high performance infrastructure to scale quickly to over 8 million monthly active users on Facebook with great gameplay.
Gilt Group, one of the world’s fastest growing eCommerce businesses, has been able to reduce costs significantly by building on Joyent infrastructure.
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